It was one of those nights. You’re tired and ready to go to bed, but there’s one more game still going on League Pass and the score is kind of close. So you put it on and end up catching one of the most entertaining games of the year.
It happened back in December with this crazy finish. And it happened again Friday with the Orlando Magic and Golden State Warriors.
“That was a shootout right there,” Dorell Wright said in the aftermath of his team coming back from a 21-point deficit (with a few minutes left in the second quarter) to beat the Magic 123-120 in overtime.
The score doesn’t do the game justice, because it doesn’t account for a wild double-turnover sequence near the end of OT, nor for how much we were all shaking our heads at the shots the Warriors were making in the final minutes. And though the Magic lost a huge lead, it’s hard to stress it too much, because teams just aren’t supposed to make all of those shots.
Led by Wright, the Warriors hit 21 3-pointers. That set a record for the most in franchise history and tied for third most in NBA history.
Most 3-pointers, single game, NBA history
| Team | Opp. | Date | 3PM | 3PA |
| Orlando | @ SAC | Jan. 13, 2009 | 23 | 37 |
| Phoenix | @ LAL | Nov. 14, 2010 | 22 | 40 |
| Golden State | vs. ORL* | March 11, 2011 | 21 | 35 |
| Toronto | vs. PHI | March 13, 2005 | 21 | 34 |
* Overtime
Of course, the Magic were hitting some bombs too, 15 to be exact. And the 36 combined threes crushed the previous record of 32, set by the Sonics (14) and Suns (18) in a double-overtime game on Jan. 22, 2006.
And the most prolific 3-point shooters in the game happened to be the league leaders in treys. Wright was 8-for-11 from 3-point range and, for the Magic, Jason Richardson was 7-for-11, allowing him to maintain an edge for the season.
Most 3-pointers, 2010-11
| Player | Team | G | 3PM | 3PA | 3P% |
| Jason Richardson | PHX, ORL | 65 | 159 | 389 | 0.409 |
| Dorell Wright | GSW | 65 | 154 | 391 | 0.394 |
| Ray Allen | BOS | 63 | 145 | 312 | 0.465 |
| Kevin Martin | HOU | 64 | 137 | 349 | 0.393 |
| Channing Frye | PHX | 61 | 132 | 333 | 0.396 |
Only two of the five guys above were in the 3-point contest, by the way.
Richardson has hit a lot of 3-pointers, but he would have to hit seven in each of the Magic’s 16 remaining games to eclipse Ray Allen‘s NBA record of 269 threes, set with the Sonics in the 2005-06 season.
One last note on this incredible game: The 41 combined points in overtime was the third most in NBA history. The record belongs to the Mavs and Rockets, who combined for 46 points (23 each) in a single overtime period on April 11, 1995.
